Monday, March 10, 2008

RSS related directions

Some of the bloggers have got in touch with us concerning BlogUpp! not recognizing their blog's RSS. Thanks for the feedback.
That was mostly due to the fact that the blogs weren't linked properly to the RSS feeds.

Normally, blog platforms automatically include in the header of blogs the <meta> tag referring the feeds. However, still there are blogs that don't have it.
In that case readers can't subscribe to keeping updated on your posting, neither BlogUpp! could share your articles and promote your blog.

In order to sort that out, for those that are to face this issue, please consider including the following line in the <header> of blog's html:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS TITLE" href="http://www.blog_address.com/rss_file_name.xml" />
changing in it title and href attributes to the actual ones.

A simple way to check whether it was done correctly, is just to open you weblog in your web browser, and see if the RSS icon is enabled, meaning that it has detected your feeds.

Additional information on what RSS is, can also be found here

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5 Comments:

Blogger vv said...

Being one of these bloggers whos blog wasn't recognized, i discovered the culprit.

My wordpress was instructed to give gzipped content "if the browsers ask so". Aparently, BlogUpp! asks for gzipped when in fact it doesn't know a yota about it.

Just disabled gzip in wordpress options and it worked like a charm!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008  
Anonymous Ali said...

I'm using a self-hosted Wordpress installation with Feedburner feeds and Blogupp! does not recognize my feed. I have an RSS icon showing in my browser when viewing my page and my RSS is using the proper meta tags:
link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Artisan Love RSS Feed" href="http://artisanlove.com/feed/"

Please advise.

Monday, July 21, 2008  
Blogger The BlogUpp! Team said...

Indeed, everything is configured properly, and there shouldn't be an issue with submitting your blog.
Probably there had been a connectivity issue, which was settled, as we've noticed that you managed to successfully submit your blog.

Thanks for your patience, and please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008  
Anonymous GeekBoy said...

I think that in my blog posts tendo RSS well, but at the moment trying to enter blogupp tells me that I do not have RSS or is empty ..

as you can help me?

Sunday, August 17, 2008  
Blogger The BlogUpp! Team said...

@GeekBoy: Please send us by email the link to your blog, for us to be able to assist you further.
Thanks.

Monday, August 18, 2008  

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